Historic pictures of US civil rights struggle published after 40 years

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(Other than the "Birmingham News," did any other American Newspapers bother publishing these?)

Historic pictures of US civil rights struggle published after 40 years

Tuesday February 28, 2006
The Guardian

Dozens of never-before-released photos from the US civil rights era came to light at the weekend after an intern discovered them buried in an equipment cupboard at the Birmingham News in Alabama.

The photos had been in a box marked: "Keep. Do Not Sell." At the time they were taken, the newspaper did not want to draw attention to the racial discord of the 1950s and 60s, photographers from the period said. "The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away," said Ed Jones, 81, a photographer at the News from 1942 to 1987.

On Sunday, the photos finally went to print in a special eight-page section called "Unseen. Unforgotten." Others are on the newspaper's website at <http://www.al.com/unseen>. Several photos vividly show the segregation in the south at the time, including the disparity among school buildings and the different lines for black and white people, even at the jail.

Other photographs show confrontations: a police officer shoving a demonstrator, black children hit with the spray of a firehose, crowds heckling demonstrators on their knees, Freedom Riders being arrested, and white people throwing bricks at cars and blocking black people from entering "whites-only" areas.

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